ELA.4.C.3.1 4.11.D

Common Core Standards Sentence Structure
Grade:	4th Grade
Standard:	ELA.4.C.3.1
Description:	Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
Standard:	4.11.D
Description:	edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: (i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments; (ii) past tense of irregular verbs; (iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns; (iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms; (v) adverbs that convey frequency and adverbs that convey degree; (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases; (vii) pronouns, including reflexive; (viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences; (ix) capitalization of historical periods, events, and documents; titles of books; stories and essays; and languages, races, and nationalities; (x) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in possessives, commas in compound sentences, and quotation marks in dialogue; and (xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and

Sentence Structure

Complete sentences always have a subject and a verb.

Simple Subject: A simple subject of a sentence is the noun or pronoun that is performing the action or state of being of the main verb.
Complete Subject: A complete subject of a sentence includes the simple subject and all the words that help describe it.

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Simple Predicate: The simple predicate of a sentence is the main verb of the sentence.
Complete Predicate: The complete predicate is the simple predicate, or main verb, and all of the words and phrases that help describe it.

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A simple predicate always agrees with the simple subject.

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The words of predicates are not always grouped together.

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Some sentences have more than one complete subject and predicate.

While simple sentences like those above have only one complete subject and complete predicate, compound sentences have two or more clauses, each with its own complete subject and predicate, that are joined by coordinating conjunctions like and, but, or, nor, for, yet, or so.

❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋

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Common Core Standards

Sentence Structure

ELA.4.C.3.1

Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.

4.11.D

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